GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1991

1. Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
2. At the Gates - Gardens of Grief
3. Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
4. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
5. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
6. Entombed - Clandestine
7. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
8. Beherit - The Oath of Black Blood
9. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
10. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
 
Not a single 5-star album from me this year, but a plethora of 4s and 4.5s. plus what is probably my favorite demo. Awesome year, metal experimentation basically peaked here.
 
Oh yes baby

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1. Devastation - Idolatry
2. Impact - Take the Pain
3. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
4. Death - Human
5. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
6. Motorhead - 1916
7. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
8. Razor - Open Hostility
9. Cancer - Death Shall Rise
10. Master - On the Seventh Day God Created... Master


Subject to change
Honorable mentions, a lot of this is easily interchangeable with whats above. In sure I'm forgetting or leaving some stuff off.
No particular order:
Toxin - Misantrophy
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Overkill - Horrorscope
Massacre - From Beyond
Assorted Heap - The Experience of Horror
Attomica - Disturbing the Noise
Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
A.R.G. - One World Without End
Protector - A Shedding of Skin
Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune
Deathrider - Requiem
Alligator - Immortal Entity
Strappado - Not Dead Yet
....and a shitload more.
 
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1 - Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
2 - Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
3 - Sepultura - Arise
4 - Coroner - Mental Vortex
5 - Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
6 - Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
7 - Gorguts - Considered Dead
8 - Devastation - Idolatry
9 - Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
10 - Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead

Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
A.R.G. - One World Without End
Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune
Massacra - Enjoy the Violence
Assorted Heap - The Experience of Horror
Invocator - Excursion Demise
Death - Human
Grave - Into the Grave
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Overkill - Horrorscope
Ashpyx - The Rack
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Master - On The Seventh Day God Created ... Master
Convulse - World Without God
Bold Thrower - War Master
Protector - A Shedding of Skin
Suffocation - Human Waste
 
I'm going to cut the autism short at 3 stars for now, once I hit 2.5 there's a sudden wall of stuff I don't even remember. Might readjust some of these anyways later. Will try to finish it later though.

Top 10

1. Maelstrom - This Battle to Make History, Yet History Never Comes
2. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
3. Coroner - Mental Vortex
4. Overkill - Horrorscope
5. Confessor - Condemned
6. Zions Abyss - T.A.L.E.S.
7. Dreadnot - Cypothiensis
8. Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
9. Fear of God - Within the Veil
10. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider

4 stars

Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse
Prong - Prove You Wrong
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Secrecy - Raging Romance
Voivod - Angel Rat
Hexenhaus - Awakening
Kingsbane - Demo 1991
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Fates Warning - Parallels
Mayfair - Find My Scream Behind This Gate
Taramis - Stretch of the Imagination

3.5 stars

Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Megace - Human Errors
Goatlord - Reflections of the Solstice
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Vicious Rumors - Welcome to the Ball
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Wartorn - Human Suffering
Artillery - Mind Factory
Metallica - Metallica
Maimed - Demo
Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune
Jewel - Revolution in Heaven
Last Crack - Burning Time
Toxin - Misantrophy
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Holy Moses - Terminal Terror
Nomicon - Tri-Angle
Medusa - Ghosts I Have Been
Psychicthrob - Bursting Dementia
Hexx - Morbid Reality
Perpetual Iniquity - Deceptive Reflection
Hammer Witch - Legacy of Pain
Invocator - Excursion Demise
Entombed - Clandestine
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Experiment - The Edge of Within
Terrahsphere - Third in Order of the Sun
Inner Sanctum - Static Veins
Altered State - Demo
Cynic - Demo '91
Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Melvins - Bullhead
Dragon - Scream of Death
Sadism - From the Perpetual Dark
Genestealer - A Thousand Steps
Paralysis - Arctic Sleep

3 stars

A.R.G. - One World Without the End
Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World
Silent Terror - Humanity... Sold Out
Devastation - Idolatry
Master's Hammer - Ritual
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Sacrosanct - Recesses for the Depraved
Titan Force - Winner / Loser
Wrathchild America - 3-D
Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
Basilisk - Demo '91
Squadron - Desert Strike
Kinetic Dissent - I Will Fight No More Forever
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Death Strike - Fuckin' Death
Xerxes - Only a Dream..?
Bagheera - Silence at Romney Marsh
Sadistik Exekution - The Magus
Battlefield - Still and Ever Again
Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
Jester Beast - Poetical Freakscream
Fatal - A Somber Evocation of Nihilism
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
False Prophet - The Second Death
Molecular Repulsion - Veil of Deception
Old Funeral - Devoured Carcass
Cyperus - Blow It Out Your Ass
Dimension Z - Incredible Connection
Dominion - Dominion
Dyers Eve - The Meaning of Death
Golgotha - Wet Dreams of the Insane
Psychopath - Making the Transition
Rothgar - Sea of Fire
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past
Grave / Deviated Instinct / Devolution - Grave / Deviated Instinct / Devolution
Sevenchurch - Nefarious
Mephisto - In Search of Lost Refuge
Jumpin' Jesus - The Art of Crucifying
Death - Human
Ripped - Blotter
Belsebub - Disemboweled
Acrostichon - Dehumanized
Midevil - The Unspoken Truth
 
1. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
2. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
3. Master's Hammer - Ritual
4. Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
5. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
6. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
7. Septic Flesh - Temple of the Lost Race
8. Bolt Thrower - War Master
9. Goatlord - Reflections of the Solstice
10. Root - Hell Symphony
 
This round was ridiculously hard, I was almost crying at the fucking masterpieces that I had to leave off.​
  1. Bolt Thrower - War Master
  2. Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
  3. Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
  4. Coroner - Mental Vortex
  5. Running Wild - Blazon Stone
  6. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
  7. Entombed - Clandestine
  8. Sabbat - Envenom
  9. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
  10. Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
Edit: I totally forgot about Envenom by Sabbat! I had to fucking remove Mental Funeral for it.
 
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1. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
2. Overkill - Horrorscope
3. Bolt Thrower - War Master
4. Mortal Sin - Every Dog Has Its Day
5. Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
6. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
7. Motörhead - 1916
8. Mortification - Mortification
9. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
10. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

Honourable Mentions
Metal Church - The Human Factor
Metallica - Metallica
Sepultura - Arise
Vicious Rumors - Welcome to the Ball
 
1. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
2. Death - Human
3. Metallica - Black Album
4. Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
4. Toxin - Misantrophy
6. Devastation - Idolatry
7. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
8. Coroner - Mental Vortex
9. Stone - Emotional Playground
10. Deathblow - Meanless Propaganda

Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune (is this 1990 or 1991?)
Invocator - Excursion Demise
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Sepultura - Arise
Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Grave - Into the Grave
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
Attomica - Disturbing the Noise
Jester's March - Beyond
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created... Master
Hexenhaus - Awakening
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Holy Moses - Terminal Terror
Terrahsphere - Third in Order of the Sun
Airdash - Both Ends of the Path
Paralysis - Arctic Sleep
Impact - Take the Pain
Quo Vadis - s/t
Assorted Heap - The Experience of Horror
Faff-Bey - Birthday
Motörhead - 1916
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

The albums tied at 4 are criminally underrated.
 
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1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
3. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
4. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
5. Death - Human
6. Entombed - Clandestine
7. Bolt Thrower - War Master
8. Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs in E Minor
9. Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
10. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten